Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles ...

The Places and Time

The first groweth (as it is generally thought) in Arabia Faelix, and in Syria also as some say, and brought to Alexandria in Aegypt, as many other things are, and from thence transported into this, and many other Countryes. The second, as Matthiolus saith, was in his time frequently sowen in the Duke of Florence, his Dominions in Italy. The third, and fourth, grow about Trent plentifully, and are kept in many Gardens, with us, as the Physick-Garden at Oxon, &c: The fifth groweth at the root of certaine hills neere the Alpes, amongst the hedges and borders of the Vineyards about Danubius. The sixth groweth neere the Sea∣shore by Teracinum. The last was found by Clusius in the fields of Salamanca, as also in the Kingdome of Granado and Valentia, in sundry bottomes of the hil••••: the two first flower in the Summer moneths, but in Italy it must not be sowne untill May. The rest flower, in June and July.